The Designer Pt. 02 Ch. 23

"Is that?" he asked, and I nodded.

"Incredible." he said, and I totally agreed.

Past: Carmen

Such a wonderful twenty-four hours. Though the last three were kinda sucky. The drive through the pouring rain in a huge RV wearing a bridesmaid's dress - wasn't the most fun I'd had. Lexi and Alyssa had already changed into warm comfortable jeans and sweatshirts. It was still summer, but driving through the coastal range and the storm had dropped the temperature dramatically. The dress was more decoration, it did nothing to keep me warm, or dry.

I had to pull over onto the shoulder and stop to dress in different clothes. Alyssa offered to drive, but I was having trouble in the winds. So I hurriedly dressed then hopped back in, and it got considerably warmer.

Jeremiah noticed me pull off, and was waiting a mile down the road. Alyssa's telepathy was more reliable than a citizen's band radio in this slop. I smiled as I touched the silver band around my neck. It was new, and I hoped I'd never take it for granted. I wanted to feel it's weight, and remember my Master.

We pulled into the hotel, it didn't look like much against the high cliffs of the rocky Oregon coast. As we parked, I noticed that the hotel was built into the side of the cliffs, and had several floors of rooms, all looking out towards the grey roiling oceans and the angry dark clouds that continued to pour rain in sheets.

Betsy had called in some favors to get the Honeymoon Suite on such short notice. We collected our overnight bags, Lexi and I carried the groom and bride's bags into the lobby. Jeremiah was checking in at the front desk, and Kelly was beside him. She waved us over, and then ran her hand along her belly. She'd only just began to show, but she stepped back from Jeremiah and directed her hands to press against her pregnant belly.

"It's so small," Lexi said, "but strong!"

"Healthy baby," smiled Alyssa and kissed Kelly's cheeks.

I could only stare and feel in awe at the press of that small foot against its mother's belly. I was honored to be so close to it, to be trusted as part of the family. I closed my eyes and prayed a prayer of thanks for all the blessings I had in my life.

Jeremiah had the keys, though the clerk looked at him oddly when he asked for five keys. Jeremiah wouldn't have it any other way. He wasn't going to hide his family, even on his wedding night.

The room was huge, with a single king-sized bed that faced out over the broad windows overlooking the angry sea. There was a small balcony outside a glass door. The suite included a shower and an additional deep jacuzzi tub. It also had a sofa and a loveseat. A large television, and a stereo system.

The bed was made in white, and had rose petals scattered over the coverlet. A bottle of champagne was chilling in an ice bucket on a nearby table, along with a plate of chocolate covered strawberries. Alyssa took it all in then steered Kelly and Jeremiah to stand in the middle of the room. Then with a look at me and Lexi, she snapped her fingers.

Lexi and I dashed off, and stripped naked, returning in just our collars and goosepimples in the cool room. We knelt before Jeremiah and Kelly, and started to disrobe them. Alyssa had planned this all with Lexi and I while we drove. She felt how cool the room was, and went to add a touch of heat. Not too much, soon we'd not care.

Returning, she stood and watched over Lexi as she removed Jeremiah's shirt, button by button. Then watched as I unbuttoned the back of Kelly's dress then pushed it over her shoulders and down. Kelly stepped out of her dress, her white wedding slip making her look stunning. She stood, and waited for me. Lexi had gotten Jeremiah down to his undershirt and boxers. We took our time, and I carefully unwrapped Kelly for her husband. Treating her like a present. Her belly had a firm bump, that I placed a kiss against, then slid out of the way, and bowed my head.

Jeremiah took Kelly into his arms, both of them naked, and Jeremiah splendidly erect. He turned and placed her among the rose petals. Alyssa slipped off her clothes and then reclined on the sofa. She snapped her fingers and Lexi and I crawled to her side. We watched as Jeremiah climbed onto the bed, and knelt astride Kelly's legs.

We were a privileged audience, watching the intimate act of a husband take his bride. It wasn't anything we hadn't seen before, but it made me tremble as I watched Jeremiah kiss and caress Kelly's flesh. How she responded in arousal. She didn't shimmer or use her powers. She wanted this one moment to be fully her and Jeremiah. Her soft moans and his gentle kisses made the slow arousal in the room percolate.

Alyssa had her hand in my hair, and I turned to her. My mouth opening as she pressed her firm nipple to my lips. I suckled her feeling her breathing increase as she watched the pair on the bed. Her other hand went to Lexi's red mane, her curls frizzy having dried from the rain. Lexi turned and knelt, nuzzling between Alyssa's thighs. Alyssa's breath caught and her back arched in arousal.

We made love to our mistress, as she watched. She allowed us to watch and observe, but made her desires known. As Jeremiah turned to look at us I felt an unspoken question and a reply. Then we were making love to our Mistress Kelly, Alyssa had shifted in her sister's form. It was Kelly's night. I groaned as my mouth shifted and suckled a different breast. Lexi lifted and smiled then dove between thighs that looked like Kelly's. Even Alyssa's moans and encouragements sounded like Kelly.

I looked over at the marriage bed, and saw that Kelly was on her knees, facing us. Jeremiah was behind his bride, his hands on her bottom. Her mouth was open as she watched us make love to her form across from her. I could hear her pleas and encouragement as Jeremiah ground his cock into her from behind. They didn't hurry, and neither did we.

It was indulgent to make love to my Mistress, as my Master fucked her across the room. Kelly's moans encouraging Lexi's as Alyssa's Kelly shaped hand gripped the red mane and drove her hips up. I looked up into my Mistresses eyes, that were locked on her own. The synchronicity of the moment was incredible.

Lexi and I focused on the Kelly before us, and listened to her commands, kissing sucking, moving and offering. Her moans of pleasure only encouraging our decadent moves. I heard the Kelly behind us pleading with Jeremiah, urging her to take her, harder, faster deeper. Her moans encouraged us to reciprocate with her doppelganger, and together, all of us, drove Kelly to the heights of passion. At the peak, Kelly released her aura, and we all shivered at the feel of her supernatural glow. I felt, but couldn't see her body freeze then tremble as Jeremiah shouted out his own release. I felt, but didn't observer her lying her head on the sheets, her face streaked with tears of joy at her release. I felt Kelly's doppelganger tremble and then seize as Lexi drank her offering.

Then the room shifted, Lexi and I were directed to the bed. Kelly slid alongside Kelly and kissed her deeply. The pairs embraced and continued their love making. Lexi and I knelt alongside our Master, cleaning his cock from his spending. Enjoying his warm presence as I prepared him for another turn.

Alyssa had steered Kelly's image, reversing her form over the top of the bride. They were enjoying each other's pussies. Jeremiah pulled Lexi up towards his mouth, then fed me his cock. I looked up at him and all it took was a tilt of his head, and I straddled his erect manhood. I groaned as I impaled myself on his stiff shaft, and then my eyes fluttered open to look at my sister slave's eyes as her thighs were spread over the groom's hungry lips.

I kissed Lexi as our hips ground and rode our Master's cock and tongue. The cries of the pair of Kelly's near us encouraged our own lusts. We quickened, the indulgent slower pace lost to the passion in the room. Kelly's aura fed us as he rocked frantically seeking the heady pleasure permeating the room.

I shivered and came as my body shivered, and continued to ride my Master's cock. Lexi screamed and pulled her arms around my shoulders, clinging to me as her firm body shook in wave after wave. Kelly cried out once, then in a chorus with her doppelganger as she crested and then quieted.

I grunted as I felt my inside boil with the spendings of my Master. His hips rolling as his hands clung to Lexi's hips. I felt my body trip into a wave of bliss, shaking as my cunt milked my Master's cock.

We slumped and rearranged, flesh slipping alongside flesh. My head was pressed to Alyssa's breast as her voice soothed me, she was back in her form. The five of us curled into a ring of intertwined bodies. Jeremiah spread his arms around us, and we interlocked, and rested. Fully coupled together.

Our family complete.

Past: Jeremiah

Our honeymoon was wonderful, we toured the coast from Newport to Astoria and back. Some nights we spent in the RV at a campground, other nights we'd splurge on a hotel room. Having Kelly's car with us gave us a bit more freedom. We'd find a remote camping spot for the RV, take Kelly's car into town for a nice meal of fresh seafood. Then we'd return to the remote spot and have glorious indulgent succubus sex until we passed out from exhaustion. After two weeks of a wonderful time it was time to get back home.

Back to life, Back to reality.

Carmen had started playing that song on the stereo for a few days. We'd picked up some cassette tapes from various stores along our trip, and this one seemed to resonate with Carmen. She's listen to it with headphones when she was cooking, and move her body to the dance beat.

However do you want me, However do you need me...

The other verse of the seemingly endless refrain that the singer echoed behind the dance music also seemed to resonate with all of us. We'd spent the last few months living a fantasy, wrapped up in our uncommon reality.

We'd researched my father's past, and recognized the first stories I'd heard from my uncle were only part of the truth. The stranger fiction of the United Priesthood, it's influence over not only it's followers but also it's larger corrupt enterprises, were also a web of lies and half truths. The tales were spun to control and manipulate people. I spent many hours driving along the coastal roads, wondering if I was doing anything differently.

Married life didn't change much with our dynamic. Kelly was my wife, but looked to Alyssa as the feminine leader in our family. They both deferred to me, of course, but they also were mostly autonomous, always thinking ahead. I wondered if I needed to be doing that as well. We'd spent so much time just handling the first thing on the radar, I wanted to get ahead of the curve.

When we'd seen all the sights along the coast, we still had another few days before the Bed & Breakfast would be ready. I wanted a change of scenery, and while having Kelly's car along with us was fun, it also separated us when we drove. We drove back into the valley, and dropped off Kelly's car, and headed up into the Cascade Mountains.

My mother used to take me to a serene lake near the summit of the mountain pass that connected the central valley in Oregon to the higher plains east of the Cascade. The range of mountains had a stretch of volcanic peaks that lined up from northern california all the way to Canada. The rugged terrain had formed many lakes, this one was formed from a prehistoric lava flow, that dammed up an artesian spring. Boating was restricted, motorized boats were not allowed. It made for a quiet get-away.

The lake had a campground at one end, and at the other end was a small lodge, that rented out rowboats and provided fishing supplies. They also rented cabins, but the demand for the small rustic rooms was high, and there was no vacancy. We opted for a camping space, and then we could rent a rowboat for the few days we would be there.

Carmen had dropped Lexi and I off at the lodge to rent the boat, then she navigated the cruiser with Kelly and Alyssa to the campground to set up camp. We rented some life-preservers, which were required, even if the lake was so cold that swimming was nearly impossible. Lexi took a hold of the oars, and I unclipped the chain and pushed us into the water.

Near the lodge the water was crystal clear, and I could see ancient trees still standing mired in the soil of the lake. The cataclysmic event that dammed the spring had flooded this valley and created the lake naturally, trapping the vegetation underneath the rising water. The water was clear and shallower near the lodge, but dropped off into a basin and the bottom was overtaken by the deep blue color of the water.

Lexi smiled as she rowed, I had offered to row, but she wanted to do the chore, "I need a good workout," she smiled, "And I'd enjoy the alone time with you. You just need to point me in the right direction."

That simple sentence seemed to be the thing vexing me. Not getting to the other side of the lake, that was somewhat easy. I sat in the stern, while Lexi faced me, her back towards the direction she was rowing. Since she couldn't see, I got her pointed in the right direction, and then she'd row fixing her eyes on a point behind my head. A few corrections here and there kept us headed steadily towards the landmark of the far-side campground.

The direction I needed to point our family was the puzzle troubling me. Each of my loves had their own goals. Kelly had enrolled for Fall semester changing her major to Hospitality Management. Alyssa was continuing her pursuit of a degree in pre-med, with a desire to become a doctor, probably of Psychiatry. Lexi had also enrolled and wanted to walk onto the cross-country team, but she also wanted a degree in Kinesiology to follow her passion for training and coaching. Carmen had decided to take the fall term off, and that troubled me.

She loved dance, and she always would. She had looked at the needs of our family, however, and decided she needed to drop out of school. She wanted to work for the B&B, be the cook and the manager, taking care of the rooms and the work needed to keep our business going. She would do this to leave the rest of us to pursue our degrees.

"I can hire someone," I said, "You don't need to quit school."

"Papi," she said, "Why? I can do the work, I am part of the family. We wouldn't have to introduce an outsider to our family. I want to do this. School never was for me."

"You'll tell me if it gets too much for you?" I offered, I'd seen how she would sacrifice herself, to the point of breaking, to help us, "You need to let us help you too, we can all pitch in."

"I promise, Papi," she had said, hugging me and looking me in the eyes, "Please let me do this for you, for all of us?"

I nodded and she grinned, and then went and sat with Kelly and they started planning for the opening of our business.

Was that all the direction I needed to provide? Point them in the direction that we both wanted, or needed, and let them free to do what they desired? Would they start to distance themselves, as we worked in so many directions? Could I keep the center intact, to provide a safe place for them to live, and learn? Would I end up sacrificing my plans to please them, then resent them years later?

Maybe I was getting ahead of myself. The steady beat of the oars was soothing. Lexi's smile, even as she worked her body hard was encouraging. She trusted me, beyond what I expect anyone to trust me. Especially after what I'd impulsively done at the start. I had to remind myself, that together we'd forged ahead, and created something so unique and special, it defied an easy explanation.

I didn't need to explain this to a parent, or anyone outside of our family. I just had to keep relying on all of us, together. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth of the sun. The solitude in the middle of a lake, formed by one of the most destructive forces on the planet. Somehow this haven was carved out of molten stone and fire. Today it brought me a feeling of peace, that I was a small part of something large. Our family was a small part of something larger. We couldn't possibly know the scope, we just had to keep rowing.

I sighed, a content sigh, if not a happy sigh. Lexi caught my expression and blew me a kiss. Over her shoulder I saw the lifted hand and waves of Kelly, Alyssa and Carmen, waiting for us on the nearing bank.

"We'd figure it out," I said to myself, "We always do."

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Author's Note:

Thank you for reading, commenting and voting.

This ends Part Two. When I returned to writing, I knew that Jeremiah's marriage was an ending point I wanted to drive to. The character's surprised me along the way, taking me on tangents and rabbit trails, that were fun to explore. I also wanted to explore their pasts, and their future. Part Two is the connective tissue between their origin and their present. Part Three will focus more on their future, while returning to their past. I find that time has ripples and currents, and any story has a repetition and recursion to it.

Thanks for reading for the last few months. The response was much greater than I expected, and encouraged me to write often, and I hope well. I want to take some time before I delve into Part Three, brainstorm, outline, and discover the characters cores so I can tell this story.

Much thanks to mgenette who provided a steady second eye on my grammar and word choice. He also encouraged me, reading my work and offering his thoughts and advice. Any residual errors or thoroughly horrible plot lines are completely my fault.

Thanks for reading, commenting, and voting. An additional thanks for those that sent feedback via my Author page, the thoughts and encouragement are invaluable.

Hank